Thursday 18 June: Arrival Day at KSGH
Arrive: Springfield Beckley Airport KSGH
Arrive: Springfield Beckley Airport KSGH
Arrive: Springfield Beckley Airport KSGH
- Land on the Grass Runway Parallel to RWY 6/24 if winds are favorable
- Use Cross Wind Runway 33-15 if better winds.
- Taxi to the Grass "Ramp" under the Control Tower.
- Park next to the other Stearmans in 2 Rows Facing each other.
- Overflow parking on the asphalt transient ramp. Bring your own tie downs suitable for grass / asphalt.
- Marshallers, Van Drivers, and Registration Desk Volunteers Needed
Registration Desk
Arrive: Springfield Beckley Airport KSGH
Arrive: Springfield Beckley Airport KSGH
- Check In at the FBO for Fuel Services; Please Top Off and service your aircraft for Friday Launch
- Discounted AVGAS for Stearman Event Attendees
- Hangar Options for storm threats
- Contract Maintenance is on call through the FBO.
- Check In with Stearman Event Registration Table (in FBO Conference Room off Lobby)
- Pick up your Event T Shirts, Name Badge,- Wrist Bands (Pilot and Guests), Challenge Coins.
Check In: Comfort Suites Hotel
Arrive: Springfield Beckley Airport KSGH
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Enterprise 15 Pax Vans with volunteer drivers will shuttle you to the Comfort Suites.
"Mass Arrival" Formation Flight Briefing 5-6:30pm
- Safety is paramount in all Formation Flight Endeavors so this "briefing" might not be brief and will be mandatory for all flyers.
- The briefing is NOT a discussion, but a brief as to how we are going to safely and professionally fly 50 Stearmans from Springfield Beckley Airport to Wright Patterson AFB and land safely.
- Registration Forms and email queries will be used to determine initial FAST qualified formation pilots
- Bring your FAST card is you plan on flying in formation (diamond or vic).
- If you fly "with" a specific group of Stearman pilots we can entertain that input (let me know in advance so we have a brief, not a 5 hour discussion)
- Comfort Suites has offered us a Conference / Briefing Room, so please be there on time, so we don't have to REPEAT the brief.
- Planes / Pilots / Back Seaters will be assigned formation positions on the Big Screen or a White board.
- The "game plane" route of flight, take off sequence and timing between flights and single ship planes, overhead break, and landing plan, tow plan will be briefed.
- COMM Plan for Class C and Class D ops, ADS-B plan, NORDO aircraft plan will all be briefed.
- Abort plans, and any questions will be answered.
- We can not "teach formation flying" at this briefing, so lets listen and most if not all your questions will be answered in the briefing.
- BIG PICTURE: Formation Qualified pilots will be in vic's or diamonds, and the rest will be in trail, so everyone will get to experience the USAF Museum arrival adventure but with safety being paramount and risk being mitigated while striving for an accident incident free operation.
- WPAFB Tower and Ground Handing Personnel will be on hand.
- Again. Our goal is to be "brief" but comprehensive, and ensure a safe evolution, so please be on time and have something to write with and bring your formation FAST cards.
- The time for discussion is BEFORE we get to the event, so if you only want to fly with specific
Group Dinner 7pm The Spaghetti Warehouse
Group Dinner 7pm The Spaghetti Warehouse
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Group No Host Dinner 7pm
- The Spaghetti Warehouse, Dayton OH
- · Address: 36 W 5th St, Dayton, OH 45402
- · Phone: (937) 461-7412
- Vans will take everyone from the Comfort Suites to the Spaghetti Warehouse. Please be "on time" so we don't have to "herd cats".